Pretty much agree with everything in your post. I went from the disappointingly bad PES6 to FIFA 08, which despite looking like a decent football game just never felt right to me. Actually switched to PS2 version of PES2009 for the next year, and then picked up PES2010, which I've been playing since it released last year. Thoroughly enjoyable game.

But, as addicted as I have been to PES2010, I decided to pick up FIFA 10 since it has been reduced in price and to see what all the fuss is about, since I've seen just about everyone raving about it.

It's a good game, nice fluid animations and the passing and 'weight' of the ball feels right. It just looks much more like real football, but after 2 weeks I sold FIFA and went back to playing PES2010, for two reasons:

1) PES is more fun to play and it has a satisfyingly 'solid' feel to it, whereas FIFA felt a little 'floaty'. Hard to explain this.

2) Become a Legend. Sure, FIFA has Be a Pro, but Konami's implementation is just far better suited to my tastes and expectations of what a control-one-player experience should feel like in terms of career structure and progression. In PES, you have to work your socks off at a small club and play really well to get that dream move to one of the European superclubs.

With PES2011 I'm not expecting any drastic changes, but the passing power gauge and easier to pull off skill moves already sound like the kind of fixes PES needs since I'm already quite happy with how PES2010 plays. Smoother and more fluid player animations would be nice too. Reply+3

You mean the "This game was not developed, approved or licensed by the owners or creators of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead" disclaimer they put on the front cover didn't um... cover them? :) Reply0

I'm a huge fan of the show and the first two books in the series, but as others have said I just can't see how this would translate into a good game. He doesn't go around shooting bad guys vigilante-style (although the Dark Avenger may likely make an appearance), he chops them up on a cold metal table (most of the time).

"Will still have the same annoying career mode that plenty of people have complained about for four years, too. Riding a bike with a custom paint scheme was fun for a while, but I kind of want to have my own rider zipping around on an authentic Ducati or Repsol Honda. Ho-hum."

Why do you they force you to use a custom bike? Very annoying. People like me who suck at editing liveries end up with something fugly to ride around on, and it only looks worse when your creation is surrounded by properly licensed MotoGP bikes. Reply0

My bad, I forgot about Crisis Core. When is that going to be released though, 2008? :)

All I've seen of it so far are pretty cutscenes using the admittedly good looking in-game engine. They'll need to show a bit more gameplay for me to get excited about it.

FFTA was enjoyable, not great. A bit easy as mentioned, but fun customizing your party and messing around with the job system. Bit light on story as well. Hopefully they come up with something a little more interesting for the sequel. Reply0

The DS is already getting plenty of future Squenix titles as it is; FFCC: Ring of Fates, FFXII Revenant Wings, Heroes of Mana, Dragon Quest IX, and Front Mission 1st. Link. Add to that FFIII which just came out.

The PSP on the other hand is only getting the one FFT port, and you want that on DS as well? Don't be greedy man! :) Reply0

Actually, I think you'll find that it's the mirror from the 599 GTB. Granted, they look very similar, but the F430 has 'F430' imprinted into the outside of the mirror, and there is another detail that you can see if you compare a pic of the 599 with the boxart i.e. the raised wedge just below the mirror on the door.

ZOE2 was superb. One of my favourite games of the 'last-gen'. Just my luck then that a 'friend' of mine had sold the copy I lent him because he "hadn't seen me in a while, and didn't think I wanted it back". >:(

They seem to be going for 'crazy' prices on eBay for some reason. Reply0

You just have to wonder, why do they even need concept art for these characters? It's like saying "yeah. we need to make a pair of trousers that's exactly - exactly, mind - exactly like all these other trousers over here. Go do some neat concept sketches."